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Pale man scene - Pans labyrinth 

Performance:

The performance is relevant to understanding the scene
  
Her facial reactions show the fear but want to adventure as the reality she faces is harsh 

we also see the concentration and drive to go even though she is scared of the unknown

she shows that she is on edge by her facial expression and the way she is standing

she shows wonder

The way the pale man runs is slow and weird to show how old he is and how he has been asleep for ages


she shows fear and danger through the way she looks and acts

she shows wonder when she sees the key


Cinematography
- tracking back and in shots - fluid camera movements, multiple times - involves spectator - we align with Ofelia
- Track right along the table - follows Ofelia's movements - she motivates camera movements - however, camera holds when she sees pale man
- over the shoulder of Ofelia's perspective

AMY

 Apply one filmakers theory of documentary film you have studied to your chosen documantry. How far does this increase your understanding of the film 

 Asif Kapadia's documentary Amy which is based on the life story of the singer from northwest London called Amy, we follow her life through archived footage. To add to the archived footage there is also voice over. Kapadia presents a personal documentary as he will show the home/professional footage and add the voice of the people who are close to Amy creating a personal relationship with the spector and Amy as they feel for her and hear it from her perspective this is similar in the way Kim Longinotto makes her documentaries they both present their personal viewpoint and try to get that across to the spectator.

Kapadia intended to break through the bad publicity that surrounded Amy and show the side of her the media does not. He wants to present amy as a human being, A scene where this is done is in the scene where she meets and makes a song with Tony Bennett, we hear tony Bennett talking about Amy as an artist and how good she was while we hear this we see the footage of them together and at that point we see Amy as very human. As she is meeting her idols ans she is exited to see this really famous artist. By doing this kapadia presents Amy as just like the spectator as a human being who can get nervous and has idols just like us this is reinforcing the idea of the personal connection; we forge to amy in this documentary, we side with her as she is shown to be so innocent and caring in the way she is towards Tony and we can also see that in the way she speaks to him.

Kapadia shows the imperfections we see Amy keep stopping saying it wasn't good enough and we really see her passion to create music the lack of cuts show the imperfections and by doing this in one long scene we can really gain a connection on a personal level. this Increases the understanding you have of the documentary as is is not a tribute but a life story showing all the imperfections to fully show the  spectator Amy not as a artist but as a human being.

The closing scene of Amy is the climax of the story we are being told. We have gone from a young girl in northwest london to a famous woman who died at a very young age. in this scene kapadia intended to show the auidiance how the story tragically ended. The scene creates a sad feeling through the use of the music and the voice over of her bodyguard talking about her death. It is at this scene we hear how she would have given it up to just be normal again the spectator can try and can understand this as to an extent the spector has been on this personal journey alongside Amy. kapadia wanted to shock the spectator the use of the scene where we see her body being carried out and hear people in the background. That shows this was real and is not a movie as there is no perfect ending, just the personal story of a artist.

SIletn cinema 

Modernism
Modernism refers to the broad movement in Western arts and literature that gathered pace from around 1850, and this is characterised by a deliberate rejection of the styles of the past; emphasising instead innovation and experimentation in forms, materials and techniques in order to create artworks that better reflected modern society.

Futurism
Futurism rejected the classical past.
Launched by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in 1909.
Among the modernist movements futurism was exceptionally vehement in its denunciation of the past.
What the futurists proposed instead was an art that celebrated the modern world of industry and technology.
Futurist painting used elements of neo-impressionism and cubism to create compositions that expressed the idea of the dynamism, the energy and movement, of modern life.

Cubism
Cubism was a revolutionary new approach to representing reality invented in around 1907-08 by artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. They brought different views of subjects (usually objects or figures) together in the same picture, resulting in paintings that appear fragmented and abstracted.
  
Constructivism
The constructivists believe art should directly reflect the modern industrial world.
Pablo Picasso's cubist constructions influenced vladimir Tatlin. These were three dimensional still lives made of scrap materials. Tattling began to make his own but they were completely abstract and made of industrial materials.
The material formation of the object is to be substituted for its aesthetic combination. The object is to be treated as a whole and thus will be of no discernible 'style' but simply a product of an industrial order like a car, an aeroplane and such like. Constructivism is a purely technical mastery and organisation of materials.

Tatlin, Malevich
Constructivism was the new art form of the revolution. Art also had to free itself from its bourgeois past; new ideas and experimentation were taking place in all the arts. Easel painting was linked to bourgeois decadence. There needed to be new forms.
After 1917, Russian artists formulated the theories of Constructivism using a combination of technology, science and art.

Man with a movie camera: 

A man with a movie camera is soviet montage 

Soviet montage - Dziga Vertov 1896-1954 

Real name David Kaufman Dziga was a nickname meaning spinning top 

Wife - Elisaveta svilova (co-editor)
brother - Mikhail Kaufman (cameraman) 

they felt the task of soviet film was to document reality to reveal truth and were opposed to the fiction film that depends on artifice 'the ordinary fiction film acts like cigars or cigarettes on a smoker. intoxicated by the cine-nicotine the spectator sucks from the screen the substance that soothes his nerves distorting his protesting conciseness' 

He was described as a 'Film hooligan' producing 'unmotivated camera mischief'. He made the man with the movie camera as a visual symphony as a self reflexative film about making the film. As a self proclaimed 'experiment in the cinematic communication of visible events'

Social
- in 1929 soviet revolution 
- ideas about the role od the new society citizen 
- Openness to experimentation initiated under lenin 

Historical
- in 1928 Stalin introduced the first five-year plan whose chair aim was to rapidly expand industrial production to bring a vast country into line with western Europe

Political
- Vertov associated with the revolutionary LEF group. in 1928 the first all union party congress 

Technological
Vertov had worked on the gait-trains, mobile propaganda centres sent to the eastern front and the far corners of the soviet union. their task was to dismember propaganda through films 

A propo de nice 

How is a propo de nice a social commentary 

 A prop po de nice is a social commentary and reflects the social divide taking place in France at the time the director uses juxtaposition to emphasize the divide by placing the top end of society in the same shot as the working class. Taking place one way this is done is through the use of aesthetics and visuals the camera is used as a way to get the audience into understanding the intricacies of society at the time. The scene in which we see an undesirable part of nice which is home to a lot of working-class however when we see the upper class they are lounging about and having a good time which is a complete opposite to the other end of the spectrum we have previously seen